Bring your old football kit to conference

Every football fan has got a favourite football strip. That kit your team wore when they won the Cup, or the first game you went to, the season you got promoted, or the first year you had a season ticket. I’ve got more football tops than I’d care to admit – Athletic Bilbao, Kaizer Chiefs, Brazil, Scotland, South Africa, for some reason Motherwell and Middlesbrough. I also have a couple belonging to a team from Glasgow that play in green and white hoops!

Some of them are special, many of them aren’t, but most of them are just lying around the house doing nothing. That’s where Kits4Causes comes in.

They use football as a way to help promote social change. So we are collecting old shirts to donate to Kits4Causes so they can send them out to children in Africa. We’d really like to collect a shirt from every team in the football league (as well as any old amateur shirts you might have). So please don’t let your local club be the one not represented.

So don’t forget your old football strips when packing for Manchester.  The strips can be dropped off at Socialist Societies Stand (126) or at the ‘Football, Qatar 2022 and Workers Rights’ fringe event on Tuesday at 1800 in exchange 11.

If you can bring a shirt along – and they can be large or small, children’s or adult – please let me know so we can keep track by emailing my team at. [email protected]

Please help if you can – even if you’re not coming to conference you can always get a friend to bring a shirt instead – and then maybe your favourite old shirt, could become someone else’s favourite new one.

Jim Murphy is Shadow Secretary of State for International Development